Definitions
(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
Word origin
From Middle English mot, from Old English mot (“grain of sand; mote; atom”), from Proto-West Germanic *mot (“grain of dirt or sand, speck”). Perhaps linked to English mud.
Used in a sentence
“Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
“What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise? An Emmet match an Emperor in might?”
“I wanted to shrink myself to a mote of dust, plunge into this pool I held in my own cyclopean hands, soar down these runs of light to places where light itself was born from this colloquy of dust.”
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01“Tiny particle”4 letters
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